Vaclav Petras wrote:
To satisfy everybody, I suggest to provide a buttons with
something like "Take me to LL", "Take me to default
location"
and "Take me to XY". What do you think about that?
But the real improvement should be the messages which would
guide you through the process.
Hi Vaclav, and all. Thanks for the continuous hard working.
So, here is screenshot and diff for new layout of the window
together the description what the things are useful for. The
descriptions can be easily changed, they are wrapped texts, so
they
will work well with translations. So, feel free to suggest
different
ones. We can also make them "gray" as suggested earlier.
I used GRASS Location and Location. I though that GRASS could
help
to emphasize that it is something GRASS-related and few people
were
using Location and Mapset with capital letter which could say
that
it is a something like files format or spatial database name. I
aimed to address the things I considered confusing. I'm not sure
about the GRASS GIS data directory as I mentioned earlier.
Now it is higher then the old one but with removal of the image
it
will be smaller. If a small-enough image is used, it could be
the
same. I would like to not include the image to have more space
for
the error messages (currently one line between GISDBASE and
Location
boxes), so messages can be longer and perhaps some what to do
next
tips can be shown as well. The position of this text can/should
be
changed, now middle of the window (usually these are at the
bottom
or at the top). However, without image it might be actually a
little
boring.
I reorganized the buttons to manage the (list of) Locations and
(list of) Mapsets, so now it looks like any other lists, e.g. in
Simple Layer Manager or in Cartographic Composer. In future we
can
add buttons, for example unpack a zipped location or download
sample
datasets in case of Locations and show existing maps button in
case
of Mapsets.
Done in r64345.
Now the change of minimal height is needed to actually make it work
on
small screens.
Please, read the previous message and commit message for a
discussion
and description.
Moritz Lennert wrote:
Generally, I like what I see, but I also have to admit that
personally, and apparently contrary to many others, I do not really
see as much need to change much in the GRASS startup.
I just have two reactions:
"Location represents a project."
I'm not sure I like this restriction to location=project.
Me too.
For my part
I often use location=projection and mapset=project, but this depends.
If it is any worth, I use single directories for projects.- Then
Locations for projections and Mapsets to organise everything as I think
is necessary underneath/inside.
I'm afraid that such a semantic limitation in the startup screen will
strongly influence users to go into just one direction...
Yes, please be more cautious here.
Vaclav Petras wrote:
A "Skip" button can be added next to Start button, once implemented.
I think that XY location in /tmp/grassdata would be appropriate.
I'm very strongly opposed to this idea. You can be sure that many
people will abuse this horribly without knowing what they are doing.
In my eyes, GRASS should continue to impose a choice of projection
system before working with data.
I use an XY location for various quick-tests. It's in my generic
"grassdb" directory, along with the other "projects".
If we want to give people the opportunity to test GRASS, I prefer the
option of a button that downloads and unpacks a very light demo
location.
Nikos
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